RE: What would make me accept the existence of a deity?
January 23, 2013 at 6:10 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2013 at 6:11 pm by Ryantology.)
apophenia Wrote:How does one judge whether something is a god if not by the effects? What criteria would "rule in" a god? It sounds like you would rule out any and all potential gods.
I would. In an effort to move the goalposts too far for skeptics to disprove, believers themselves established criteria for gods which are absolutely impossible to positively prove.
It is too easy to think of methods by which any sufficiently advanced, powerful and motivated being can replicate, or provide a convincing substitute, of any event or power attributed to God. And, there are plenty of motives for doing it.
Quote:That seems to make your disbelief as irrational as the belief of those who accept a god based on too little evidence.
If I refuse to accept something that can never be conclusively proven to be true and can be faked by any number of possible methods and there are numerous obvious motives for some being to fake them, how does that make me irrational?
